Jo Reitkopp:  

Wow, tell my story. Well, it's a pretty long one so here goes: Immediately after high school, I traveled to Sicily with my father. My cousins in Sicily told my father about an American school in Rome and he enrolled me in Loyola University of Chicago's Rome Center Branch. This was the first time in my life that I was away from my parents and I had a great time traveling all over Rome by myself. During my year in Rome, a friend and I traveled to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. I saw Lenin's body in Moscow in Red Square and that is one sight I will never forget. After spending one year in Rome, Italy, I came back to the U.S. and attended UCLA. My first year there, I roomed with three other girls from our class. My last year there, I met my husband. He was graduating that year from UCLA Law School. He or...Expand for more